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Choices

By Tess Gallagher
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When we stop plunging ahead in our activities long enough to just look, we become gentle.

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Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness

Marc Ian Barasch, dubbed "one of today's coolest grown-ups" by Interview magazine, sets out on a journey to the heart of compassion. He discovers its power to change who we are and the society we have become. Compassion, he concludes, is "a prescription for authentic joy.

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Marc Ian Barasch
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The Sun Is So Quiet

The quiet and noisy, wintery and sometimes sunny poems in The Sun Is So Quiet will always make you smile. Nikki Giovanni describes riding rainbows, tiptoeing through strawberry patches, licking chocolaty fingers, snuggling under covers, and many other wonderful childhood moments.

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Nikki Giovanni
2014
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The Kindness Handbook: A Practical Companion

A friend criticizes you. You grow impatient with someone you’re trying to help. A cell phone user annoys you on a train.

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Sharon Salzberg
2015
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